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Clear eyes and full hearts are losing one of the best shows ever shown on TV.

“Friday Night Lights,” the TV version of the 2004 movie, based on the 1990 non-fiction book by H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, comes to an end after five seasons exclusively at 8 p.m. (Central time) Wednesday, Feb. 9 on DirecTV’s 101 Network.

Earning more praise by critics than viewers and Emmys, “FNL” wasn’t just a show about football, it was about family — traditional, workplace, extended and unexpected ones.

San Antonio football fans, except those with Time Warner Cable, will be able to watch the New York Giants-Minnesota Vikings game at Detroit on Monday.
The game will now start at 6:20 p.m. at Detroit’s Ford Field. If you’ve haven’t heard by now, the roof of the domed stadium at the game’s orginal site — (the Metrodome in Minneapolis), collapsed Sunday morning due to heavy snowfall in the Twin Cities over the weekend.
That means fans can watch a bonus Monday Night game if they don’t care to watch ESPN’s regularly-scheduled Monday Night Football game — Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens — at 7:30 p.m. on the Worldwide Leader and KZDC-AM 1250.
Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Pam Oliver call their own Monday Night game. The Fox Sports telecast can be seen by subscribers of the NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV’s channel 710. The NFL Network will also show the game tape-delayed at 11 p.m. (Central time) in its entirety.
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The New York Giants at Minnesota game scheduled for noon Sunday on Fox has moved to 7 p.m. Monday to stations in the Giants and Vikings home markets. The game was delayed due to the recommendation of Metrodome officials due to the foot-and-a-half of snow that covered the Minneapolis-St. Paul area on Saturday, making travel, safety issues and stadium roof maintenance difficult.
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Die-hard Spurs fans take note: Thursday’s preseason opener against the Rockets will be on TV, but it will be hard to get.

Fox Sports Net Houston will show San Antonio’s first game of the 2010-11 campaign from Houston at 7:30 p.m. The Rockets’ broadcast team of Bill Worrell (play-by-lay) and Clyde Drexler (analyst) will call the game.

San Antonio viewer can get FSN Houston on DirecTV channel 678 and AT&T UVerse channels 755 (standard definition) and 1755 (high definition). Customers must subscribe to each system’s sports-tier package in order to view the regional sports network.